Do you have gifts for leadership you wish to share with teens, ages 15-18, or with college students?

 

Interfaith Youth Initiative (IFYI) is seeking applications from seminarians, graduate school mentors, and religious leaders for full-time staff positions at our dynamic eight-day exploration of peacemaking, vocation, interfaith dialogue, spirituality, service, urban immersion, and leadership training. IFYI focuses on 5 Core Values: Building Bridges, Training Leaders, Engaging Faith, Making Peace, and Serving Others.  IFYI is a program of Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries, in partnership with Episcopal Divinity School, Northeastern University, and Harvard Pluralism Project.

 

IFYI is scheduled June 25- July 2, 2013 at Brandeis University

(Waltham, MA) on the Theme:

Staff positions require participation in an extended planning session

and a conference call during the Spring.

 

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 IFYI is a uniquely powerful and transformative experience designed for teens (ages 15-18), college students, and graduate students serving as mentors and staff. IFYI offers a powerful, fun, and dynamic mix of community building, workshops, service experiences, and learning trips which will engage urban and suburban realities. Along with our eight day residential immersion experience (June 25-July 2), IFYI offers ongoing opportunities in the academic year for mentoring, retreats, and support for youth in pursuing their academic and professional dreams.

 

Participants will learn about their own leadership and peacemaking styles and develop new skills for transformation in their schools, communities, and congregations. Youth will create film, art, poetry/spoken word, dance and theological reflections on their visions of justice and peace.

 

Participants come from diverse religious backgrounds and grow more deeply in their own faith traditions through dialogue and action with others. Leadership (currently) comes from the Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Interfaith, and Unitarian Universalist traditions. All are welcome.

 

PLEASE ALSO NOMINATE TEENS FOR THE PROGRAM. We are seeking mature young people (ages 15-18, and college age) curious and passionate about faith, with gifts and energy, who may be exploring an emerging vocation or who are simply open to learning and building community in a supportive faith setting and in the city. Spaces fill fast, so nominate soon by emailing, calling, or writing a note to the IFYI office with contact information for teens, and their parent, guardian, or youth leader. Request information from ifyi@coopmet.org to send information to yourself or a youth.